India, Sept. 3 -- The Naga Students' Federation's (NSF) protest against the compulsory singing of Vande Mataram outside the Nagaland Assembly entered its second day on Thursday, even as the issue was taken up during Zero Hour in the House.

NSF members sang hymns including "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder", "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" as they protested the Centre's directive on compulsory singing of Vande Mataram.

Raising the matter in the Assembly, NPF MLA Achumbemo Kikon, a former NSF president, said the agitation was not limited to any particular constituency but concerned the state as a whole.

He said the controversy over compulsory singing of Vande Mataram had already generated extensive deba...